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Media and Reviews
The paperback edition of my first book, Rise: Surviving and Thriving After Trauma, will be available in the shops and online from 29 December 2016. You can pre-order it from Amazon now for only £8.99. Rise is a first-aid…
Hay Festival is a wonderful place. It is awash with life and literature: kids scuttling to see their favourite authors reading extracts from their latest books, and adults queuing up in the shop clutching books to be signed by…
In her Daily Express column, television presenter Judy Finnegan wrote about Rise: “Unlike Victoria Derbyshire, fellow broadcaster Sian Williams decided to keep her breast cancer diagnosis private. Like Derbyshire, however, she has now gone public, offering help and advice…
On the day my book Rise is released, Woman & Home magazine has published a feature about my breast cancer experience and how to survive trauma. In it I describe how I found strategies to cope with my ordeal by interviewing…
I joined presenter Matthew Wright this morning to discuss my cancer experience, my book, and how my psychology training helped me research Rise. Wright said about Rise: “It’s way more profound than a celebrity account of issues. I think…
Before the publication of Rise, I spoke to Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2 about my breast cancer experience and double mastectomy. I told him I never expected my trauma training would be put into practice in such a personal…
This radio documentary explores the science of resilience, based on my MSc research into post-traumatic growth and personal experience of breast cancer. In it I speak to leading academics researching this subject, such Dr Michael Pluess from Queen Mary…
During this interview I told host Fiona Phillips how writing a diary helped me cope with my breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy. My book, Rise, is based on my journals. I said: “I never intended for me to…
Why trauma is like rebuilding a shattered vase – talking on BBC 1’s The One Show
Today I spoke about my breast cancer and double mastectomy on BBC 1’s The One Show. I described my experiences and explained why they prompted me to write my book, Rise. I said: “I thought I knew all about…